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Well we officially did it – we are Natick natives! It seems like forever ago when, one warm June day, Jason and I stood on our freshly paved driveway and said, “We're done with our projects! Let’s be crazy and list it!” The house went up on Zillow on July 1 and the rest is history. We somehow navigated the sale of Edenfield Ave and the purchase of Craft Road without a realtor, closed both transactions the same day, and made it through unscathed! It really all worked out perfectly.

So Wednesday last week, September 30, was move day. As I mentioned we did have a storage container for our big stuff, but most everything else was taken by Berg and Jason on several trips over to the house beforehand. Things went very smoothly until we woke up that last morning in Watertown to, honoring its namesake, a town filled with water! A monsoon, to be precise. The storm drains were all blocked, the road was flooding, it was a MESS. We needed an ark! It was foggy, muddy, windy and rainy. It definitely dampened the mood (haha, get it).

Anyway, I got busy cleaning the house and Jason mainly paced around, waiting for some break in the downpour to get the rest of our stuff outside and packed in. At one point he went outside with his crow bar to pry open the storm drain - we were so worried the water was rising and would leak into the pod and ruin our stuff! I don't have any pictures of this treacherous time because we were very busy stressing out. 10:45 am came, the new owners pulled up with the moving van, we did one last run though, said our goodbyes and drove away! I thought I would be sadder than I was, I did love that house. But I had lots to look forward to in the new one so we were happy.

Alex was with Jen and Ashton was at school, so we found ourselves alone and temporarily homeless! The closing for Edenfield Ave was in the morning, and the closing for Craft Road was at 1 pm, and even though we had had legitimate access to Craft Road since the 20th it still felt weird! 

Later that night, after the boys were home and our container had been delivered, we set up the kitchen and the living room right away and all our stuff from Edenfield Ave was literally right at home. It didn't even look like we had just moved!

Although, panning to the left, it's a little more sparse.

[I think I mentioned we had the walls painted and the floors re-done before we moved in- it made a world of a difference and I'm so happy with how it all came out. The main wall color downstairs is Benjamin Moore Quiet Moments - it sometimes seems blue, sometimes green, sometimes gray, and it looks awesome. For anyone needing a good color.]

Overall, we have spent the last week trying to settle in. Of course we have a very big list of things to do: buy A, fix B, call for a quote for C, look at other options for D, build E, etc. But most importantly, the boys seem really happy. They are cozy in their rooms, play in the backyard, and we've walked around the neighborhood to the playground. It's actually at an old school that is no longer being used but hey, a playground is a playground, even if it's abandoned! 

Just means more room for us ;) [That's Route 9 in the background - hop on that puppy and in 5 minutes you have every kind of shopping you could possibly ever need or want - I'm loving our new location!] I'm hoping I will eventually meet other parents here but last night there were 3 ten year old boys playing and I was asking them all sorts of questions. Turns out they love their school, Halloween is a huge deal in the neighborhood, and one of them was having meatloaf for dinner. I said all of those things sound good!

I'll probably be posting a random assortment of things for my next few entries, just in the interest of getting settled and what I'm learning about my new surroundings. Even though I took most of last week off, I did practice my commute Thursday and Friday by bringing Ashton to school. It was not the fastest but not the slowest. I've figured out the best route when I don't have to bring him (which is T/R) but M/W/F will definitely be 50 minutes in the car from when we leave home to when I sit down at my desk. Still could be worse. I've decided to look for new schools for him in Natick/Wayland/Wellesley but it's a lot more expensive with a lot fewer openings. So that's a work in progress, along with finding Alex a little toddler program that he is desperately ready for, along with figuring out why our brand new washer won't balance, along with everything else right now! Objects in motion...